Usually means: Brazilian dance with rhythmic, lively steps.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word samba:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. samba: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. samba: Merriam-Webster
  3. samba: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. samba: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. samba: Collins English Dictionary
  6. samba: Vocabulary.com
  7. Samba, samba: Wordnik
  8. samba: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. samba: Wiktionary
  10. samba: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. samba: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. samba: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. SAMBA: Dictionary.com
  14. samba (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. samba: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. SAMBA, Samba (Brazilian), Samba (Brazilian dance), Samba (Krishna's son), Samba (ballroom), Samba (ballroom dance), Samba (bus), Samba (disambiguation), Samba (film), Samba (music), Samba (rice), Samba (software), Samba (song), Samba (web browser): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. samba: Rhymezone
  18. samba: FreeDictionary.org
  19. samba: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. samba: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. Samba: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Dance (No longer online)

Computing (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Samba: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  2. Samba: Linktionary Networking Glossary
  3. Webopedia (No longer online)
  4. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Technopedia (No longer online)
  6. Samba (music), Samba (software), samba: Encyclopedia
  7. Samba: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SAMBA: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Samba: Card Games

(Note: See sambaed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (dance) A Brazilian ballroom dance or dance style.
noun:  (music) A Brazilian musical genre, to which the aforementioned dance is danced, which has its roots in West Africa via the slave trade.
verb:  To dance the samba.
noun:  A town and district of Jammu and Kashmir, India.

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